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Calendar
Monday, October 19
"Dietary Guidelines: How Do They Work?"
Speakers: Meir Stampfer, professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition; Marjorie McCullough, doctoral student, Department of Nutrition
Sponsor: Department of Nutrition
FXB G-13, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
"Mechanical Impedance of Cultured Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells from 0.05"
Speaker: Geoffrey Maksym, research fellow, Department of Environmental Health
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health
Kresge 502, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
"The First Injustice: Socioeconomic Disparities and Infant Mortality"
Speaker: Steven Gortmaker, senior lecturer on sociology, Department of Health and Social Behavior
Sponsor: Department of Population and International Health, Population and Reproductive Health Seminar
SPH I-1112, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 20
"Shear-Dependent Activation of Endothelial NADPH Oxidase: A Cell Signaling Mechanism"
Speaker: Aron Fisher, professor of physiology and medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Physiology Program
Kresge 502, 9:30-10:30 a.m.
"Current Research on Aging: Some Practical Aspects of What We've Learned"
Speaker: Roberta Rosenberg, Harvard Program on Aging
Sponsor: Harvard University Office of Work and Family
2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
"Disparities and Transgressions: The Domain of Health and Human Rights"
Speaker: Jennifer Leaning, senior research fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, and assistant professor, HMS
Sponsor: FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
FXB G-11, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
"Improving Clinical Communications in the Academic Health Center with Information Technology"
Speaker: Gilad Kuperman, clinical systems designer, Department of Information Systems, Partners HealthCare System and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sponsor: Center for Quality of Care Research and Education
Kresge G-2, 12:30-1:25 p.m.
Wednesday, October 21
Award Presentation and Lecture: "Medical Education and the Role of Society"
Speaker: Samuel Guze, Spencer T. Olin professor of psychiatry, Washington University Department of Psychiatry
Sponsor: Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Goldenson (Building B) 122, HMS, 3:45-5:00 p.m.
(Continuing Medical Education credits are available.)
Thursday, October 22
Title To Be Announced
Speaker: Tim Evans, Rockefeller Foundation
Sponsor: Population and International Health
SPH I-1210, 12:15-1:25 p.m.
"Male Reproductive Biology: Implications for Fertility"
Speaker: Ben Campbell, Department of Anthropology, Boston University
Sponsor: Center for Population and Development Studies
9 Bow Street, Cambridge, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Friday, October 23
"Genetic Variation and Human Disease in China"
Speaker: Li Jin, Institute of Genetics, Fudan University, Shanghai and Human Genetics Center,
University of Texas, Houston
Sponsor: Department of Environmental Health, Program for Population Genetics
FXB G-12, 2:30 p.m.
- Submit calendar listings to Bob Brustman,
Kresge 1012, by noon on Monday of the week preceding
the event. Listings may be transmitted via Email: croache@hsph.harvard.edu.
- See also the online HSPH calendar at www.hsph.harvard.
edu/calendar/ for late-breaking events and a listing of events
scheduled throughout the academic year.
- Advisors to foreign students and scholars from
the Harvard International Office will hold office
hours at HSPH on October 22 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
in Kresge G-10. Drop by or call 432-0488 to schedule an
appointment. Please remember to bring your passport and
other visa documents.
- An orientation session for recently hired non-exempt staff will be held from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. on October 20 in MEC-L008, 260 Longwood Avenue, HMS. The program includes an overview of Harvard's organizational structure and mission, benefits, retirement plans, facilities, programs, and services. Benefits Office consultants will be on hand to answer questions.
